A Perspective On U S Farm Problems And Agricultural Policy

Author : LANCE. MCKINZIE
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367013878

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A Perspective on U. S. Farm Problems and Agricultural Policy by LANCE. MCKINZIE Pdf

Today's American farmers struggle constantly with a financial crisis. News reports chronicle the dreary events-- foreclosures, protests, governmental debates, distress sales. There is great pressure on the U.S. government to ease the current farm financial situation, but there is opposing pressure to wean the farm sector from government support, to move agriculture toward a market-oriented economy, and above all, to reduce government outlays. Because the financial crisis permeates the agricultural community, critical choices must be made regarding the role of government in the farm sector, and alternate policies must be conceived. A Perspective on U.S. Farm Problems and Agricultural Policy provides a framework for evaluating national policy alternatives and attempts to improve our understanding of the nature of the farm sector and its problems. The discussion covers important issues such as farm size, the process of dynamic adjustment to changing technology, and financial disruptions associated with periodic land booms and busts. The issues are presented in historical perspective and in relation to past agricultural policies. The authors move to more specific examination of the current financial crisis by looking at various sizes and types of midwest farms. They establish different categories of financial stress in the context of both historical data for the national farm sector and more recent data on individual farms, drawing conclusions about the primary determinants of financial stress and the manner in which individuals are adjusting to it.

Author : George Horwich
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780429722165

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Food, Policy, And Politics by George Horwich Pdf

This book addresses the issues surrounding food policy with an emphasis on the roles played by the U.S. family farm, markets, government subsidies, Third World politics, and international economy. It discusses the nature of the agricultural problems and suggests specific solutions for each of them.

Author : PETER H.. ROSENBERG LEHNER (NATHAN A.),Nathan Rosenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1585762377

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Farming for Our Future by PETER H.. ROSENBERG LEHNER (NATHAN A.),Nathan Rosenberg Pdf

Farming for Our Future examines the policies and legal reforms necessary to accelerate the adoption of practices that can make agriculture in the United States climate-neutral or better. These proven practices will also make our food system more resilient to the impacts of climate change. Agriculture's contribution to climate change is substantial--much more so than official figures suggest--and we will not be able to achieve our overall mitigation goals unless agricultural emissions sharply decline. Fortunately, farms and ranches can be a major part of the climate solution, while protecting biodiversity, strengthening rural communities, and improving the lives of the workers who cultivate our crops and rear our animals. The importance of agricultural climate solutions can not be underestimated; it is a critical element both in ensuring our food security and limiting climate change. This book provides essential solutions to address the greatest crises of our time.

Author : Gerald D. Toland, Jr.,William E. Nganje,Raphael Onyeaghala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315459516

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US Agricultural and Food Policies by Gerald D. Toland, Jr.,William E. Nganje,Raphael Onyeaghala Pdf

Policy analysis is a dynamic process of discovery rather than a passive exercise of memorizing facts and conclusions. This text provides opportunities to "practice the craft" of policy analysis by engaging the reader in realistic case studies and problem-solving scenarios that require the selection and use of applicable investigative techniques. US Agricultural and Food Policies will assist undergraduate students to learn how policy choices impact the overall performance of agricultural and food markets. It encourages students to systematically investigate scenarios with appropriate positive and normative tools. The book emphasizes the importance of employing critical thinking skills to address the complexities associated with the design and implementation of twenty-first-century agricultural and food policies. Students are asked to suspend their personal opinions and emotions, and instead apply research methods that require the careful consideration of both facts and values. The opportunities to build these investigative skills are abundant when we consider the diversity of modern agricultural and food policy concerns. Featuring case studies and critical thinking exercises throughout and supported by a Companion Website with slides, a test bank, glossary, and web/video links, this is the ideal textbook for any agricultural policy class.

Author : Nadine Lehrer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 1624992633

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U.S. Farm Bills and Policy Reforms by Nadine Lehrer Pdf

U.S. farm bills are home to the nation's primary policies for agriculture, land use, and conservation. Although often outside the public spotlight, many of these policies are crucial to how land and food are managed in this country--from food stamp programs for low-income households to environmental conservation for natural resources to the often controversial commodity subsidy programs to support farmers. Examining the gains and misses for conservation in the 2008 farm bill also sheds light on agricultural sustainability prospects embedded in farm policy. In this case, the emphasis on biofuels during farm bill debates both threatened conservation with the prospect of large-scale corn ethanol production, and also shifted public focus away from reforms that might have improved agriculture's environmental and social footprint. At the same time, the 2008 farm bill did introduce some new prospects for environmentally- and socially-sustainable agricultural policies in the longer term. In examining the reasons for the 2008 farm bill's approach to and then retreat from rapid policy change, Nadine Lehrer guides us through ideological conflicts over world trade, renewable energy, and sustainable agriculture as embedded in U.S. farm policy debates. This book locates these debates within the historical context of farm bills over time, providing a concise history of agricultural policy dynamics as they relate to current issues. The book also integrates complementary theoretical perspectives from the policy change and social movement literatures, and in particular makes a case for incorporating discourse analysis into studies of policy change and policy stability. Integrating theory and history with a multidisciplinary perspective on changing situational drivers, interest group struggles, and Congressional politics, Lehrer uses the farm bill as an illustrative case for illuminating U.S. political processes and implications. This is an important work for students and scholars of the U.S. political system, especially those focused on agricultural policy, sustainability and environmental conservation, theory and methods of policy analysis, and the intersections of policy and culture.

Author : United States. Department of Agriculture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Agricultural administration
ISBN : PSU:000055526357

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What Peace Can Mean to American Farmers by United States. Department of Agriculture Pdf

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Author : Timothy A. Wise
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781620974230

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Eating Tomorrow by Timothy A. Wise Pdf

"A powerful polemic against agricultural technology." —Nature A major new book that shows the world already has the tools to feed itself, without expanding industrial agriculture or adopting genetically modified seeds, from the Small Planet Institute expert Few challenges are more daunting than feeding a global population projected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050—at a time when climate change is making it increasingly difficult to successfully grow crops. In response, corporate and philanthropic leaders have called for major investments in industrial agriculture, including genetically modified seed technologies. Reporting from Africa, Mexico, India, and the United States, Timothy A. Wise's Eating Tomorrow discovers how in country after country agribusiness and its well-heeled philanthropic promoters have hijacked food policies to feed corporate interests. Most of the world, Wise reveals, is fed by hundreds of millions of small-scale farmers, people with few resources and simple tools but a keen understanding of what and how to grow food. These same farmers—who already grow more than 70 percent of the food eaten in developing countries—can show the way forward as the world warms and population increases. Wise takes readers to remote villages to see how farmers are rebuilding soils with ecologically sound practices and nourishing a diversity of native crops without chemicals or imported seeds. They are growing more and healthier food; in the process, they are not just victims in the climate drama but protagonists who have much to teach us all.

Author : Virgil Ball,Roberto Fanfani,Luciano Gutierrez
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781441963857

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The Economic Impact of Public Support to Agriculture by Virgil Ball,Roberto Fanfani,Luciano Gutierrez Pdf

Despite a gradual and sustained decline in the contribution of agriculture to the economies of the member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the sector remains socially and politically important. Although agriculture accounts for less than 2% of the gross domestic product of the OECD countries, it occupies over 35% of their total land area. Predominantly rural regions, where agriculture remains particularly important, contain almost one quarter of the population of OECD countries. The past quarter century has witnessed signi?cant changes in agricultural po- cies in OECD countries. Although total support remains high, a shift has taken place from price-linked measures to direct income support, most notably in the European Union. Policies have been adapted to meet pressing social concerns, such as ens- ing food security and improving environmental quality. OECD countries face major economic issues due to the ageing of their populations and the need to adapt to gl- alization and increasing competition from emerging economies. Continued pressure to reform agricultural policies will be exerted by the need to economize on the use of scarce public resources. At the same time, agriculture faces new challenges g- erated by climate change, the “greening” of the economy, increasing scarcity of energy and water, and the demands placed on the food system by an expanding world population.

Author : Daniel A. Sumner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780429693366

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Agricultural Stability And Farm Programs by Daniel A. Sumner Pdf

This book attempts to contribute to a fuller understanding of perennial issues underlying farm problems and agricultural policies in the United States thus contributing to better projections of policy effects, to better forecasts of policy changes, and perhaps to better policy for agriculture.

Author : United States. Department of Agriculture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Agriculture and state
ISBN : MINN:31951D01587963D

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Food and Agricultural Policy by United States. Department of Agriculture Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Agricultural administration
ISBN : UOM:39015011489518

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Farm Policy Perspectives by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lance McKinzie
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429712722

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A Perspective On U.s. Farm Problems And Agricultural Policy by Lance McKinzie Pdf

A Perspective on U.S. Farm Problems and Agricultural Policy provides a framework for evaluating national policy alternatives and attempts to improve our understanding of the nature of U.S. farm sector and its problems.

Author : Christopher Hamlin
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429715778

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Deep Disagreement In U.s. Agriculture by Christopher Hamlin Pdf

This book exemplifies disagreements in agricultural research and agricultural policies in the U.S. It hopes to expand the capacity for critical discussion on matters of agriculture and attempts to open a path to more fruitful communication among participants in agricultural controversy.

Author : Harold F. Breimyer
Publisher : Iowa State Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015002693391

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Farm Policy by Harold F. Breimyer Pdf

Biological man and social organization; Agrarian agriculture; The partial industrialization of agriculture; Covet land; Who makes farm policy? What farmers are paid for: production vs. capital gains as income sources; Price and income policy for an agrarian and industrial agriculture; The food reserve issues.

Author : James L. Novak,James W. Pease,Larry D. Sanders
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Agricultural laws and legislation
ISBN : 1138809225

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Agricultural Policy in the United States by James L. Novak,James W. Pease,Larry D. Sanders Pdf

Agricultural Policy in the US: Evolution and Economics traces the foundation of US agricultural policy from its colonial roots to the present, using economic concepts to analyze and interpret political and economic consequences. Ancient Roman food and agricultural reform, English Corn Law and other historic examples of agricultural policies are included to show that agricultural policy has a long history and has been found necessary for governance throughout history. Processes employed to develop US agricultural policies, the structure and function of government that develops and implements agricultural policy, and the specific evolution of policy from the early twentieth century to the Agricultural Act of 2014 are included. Specific policies in past farm bills are detailed in order to track their evolution and economic effects. This textbook includes arguments for and against common tools of US agricultural policy. This debate continues today and can be seen in a gradual change over time from taxes and tariffs to risk management. Information presented does not attempt to influence the readership towards a pro or con position but rather to present information to help the readers to understand the issues related to agricultural policy in the US.